David Russell
I am a Spatial Data Scientist at UC Davis. My work focuses on developing open-source tools to help land managers and ecologists understand forests using data from drones and other low-cost sensors.
Sessions
Use recently developed Open Forest Observatory tools to process forest imagery from low-cost drones into tree-level maps, including species predictions from computer vision applied to raw drone images, and evaluate results against ground reference data.
Geograypher computes precise correspondences between unprocessed aerial image pixels and geospatial coordinates while supporting occlusion checking, enabling applications in complex natural environments. This capability allows per-image predictions from computer vision to be georeferenced, supporting accurate vegetation mapping.